Head - Employee Relations - Batteries Business

1. Industrial & Employee Relations Leadership

• Own end-to-end ER strategy for the entire site (7-8 plants, thousands of employees).
• Establish a stable, long-term industrial relations framework aligned to business growth.
• Lead union engagement, negotiations, and settlements (wage agreements, charters, productivity deals).
• Proactively manage employee sentiment, grievances, and dispute resolution.

2. Union & Workforce Management

• Act as the single point of leadership interface with recognized unions, workers' committees, and external labor bodies.
• Drive constructive engagement models (joint forums, consultative committees).
• Handle collective bargaining, wage revisions, and productivity-linked agreements.
• Prepare and manage strike prevention, contingency planning, and crisis response

3. Compliance & Statutory Governance

• Ensure 100% compliance with central and state labor laws, including:
• • Industrial Disputes Act
  • Factories Act
  • Contract Labour Act
  • Standing Orders
  • Social security & wage codes
• Manage inspections, audits, and interactions with labor departments and statutory authorities.
• Oversee contract labor governance across all plants and vendors.

4. Multi-Plant ER Governance

• Create common ER policies, SOPs, and playbooks across all plants while respecting local nuances.
• Standardize disciplinary processes, misconduct handling, and domestic inquiries.
• Mentor and develop plant-level ER teams to ensure consistency and maturity.
• Drive early warning systems for ER risks across units.

5. Productivity, Culture & Change Enablement

• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing leadership to:
  • Support new plant commissioning and manpower ramp-up
  • Enable shift changes, automation, new skill deployment
• Drive behavioral and cultural alignment in a high-discipline, safety-critical battery environment.
• Support change programs related to:
  • Digitization
  • Workforce restructuring
  • Contractor rationalization

6. Crisis & Risk Management

• Lead ER response during:
  • Workforce unrest
  • Safety incidents with ER implications
  • Regulatory or political escalations
• Build scenario-based contingency plans to protect operations and brand reputation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to site leadership during sensitive situations.